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5/22
1998
18
Closing The Books
Members of the Woman's Auxiliary of United Hebrew Schools
meet for the last time.
JULIE EDGAR
News Editor
W
hen they would gather
for their twice-yearly
board meetings, the
ladies of the Woman's
Auxiliary of United Hebrew Schools
wore hats and took their tea and cof-
fee from a sterling silver tea service.
So formal were they that the presi-
dent never veered from the business at
hand, which included decisions
about scholarship money, the aux-
iliary's annual fund-raiser and
news about members' health and
simchas.
Over the life of the group,
which goes back at least 50 years,
the auxiliary gave hundreds of
thousands of dollars to United
Hebrew Schools and Midrasha
library for the furtherance of edu-
cation for students and teachers.
Molly Diamond, a former
president, called the auxiliary "the
most devoted group" to which
she'd ever belonged.
"We used to pay for lunch out
of our own pockets. Every penny
we raised went to the auxiliary,"
she said.
Although there were no tears (or
hats) at the group's very last meeting
on Wednesday, May 13, members,
many of them over 70, decried the
state of Jewish education and waxed
nostalgic about the UHS system.
"When you graduated, you knew
something," said Ethel Cohen, who
joined the auxiliary in the 1940s,
when her daughter was of school age.
"There was no other place where girls
could get a good education." She
recalled that her children attended
UHS classes five afternoons a week.
Cohen and Diamond said it was
Bess Axelrod, who could not attend
the May 13 meeting because of a frac-
tured hip, who inspired them to join
the auxiliary. She would go to PTA
meetings to recruit parents, and she
found the two women at the Rose
Sittig Cohen School in Detroit.
Diamond joined "on the spot" after
hearing Axelrod speak. That was in
1959.
Reached later,
Axelrod, who joined the
auxiliary in 1949, said
she grew to love the
members of the group,
all of whom were pas-
sionately dedicated to
Jewish education. And
her association with the
auxiliary brought her in
contact with the "cream
of the city." Even today,
Above: United Hebrew Schools Woman's
Auxiliary Co-Presidents Florence Gantz
and Anna Mickel.
Above left: Molly Diamond served as
president of the auxiliary in 1963-64.
Left: Rose Stewart served as treasurer for
45 years.
•Mgrs."'".
she said, people still remark on the
great donor luncheons the auxiliary
hosted each year.
Axelrod figures the auxiliary raised
about a quarter-million dollars
through the years.
United Hebrew Schools closed
some five years ago, becoming the
Agency for Jewish Education. But the
auxiliary still had money in its coffers.
Members decided they would contin-
ue to meet and grant scholarships as
long as the money was there. Co-
President Florence Gantz said scholar-
ships continued to be awarded to for-
mer UHS students going to Hebrew
camp or Hebrew University.
In the past five years, Gantz contin-
ued sending out progress reports to
the 400 members on the auxiliary's
mailing list. The board meetings
which once attracted around 60
women, were attended by 15 to 20
,